The 157-km line links Yancheng with Nantong and will take fouryears to complete at a cost of 26 billion yuan (4 billion U.S.dollars), according to the provincial railway office.

Upon completion, it will cut the travel time between the twocities from about two hours to 40 minutes.

"The Yancheng-Nantong railway will boost the integrateddevelopment of the coastal region of Jiangsu and the Yangtze RiverDelta region," said Lan Shaomin ECCO Homme Holton Plain Toe Tie Noir , vice governor of Jiangsu.

Jiangsu is one of China's most developed provinces, while theYangtze River Delta is one of the country's economic powerhouses,covering Shanghai, and parts of Jiangsu Ecco Cool 2.0 Homme Pas Cher , Zhejiang and Anhuiprovinces.

China's had 25,000 km of high-speed railway at the end of 2017,accounting for 66 percent of the world's total. Enditem

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the United States would add more sanctions on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).

Before his meeting with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session in New York, Trump told reporters that his administration was to put "more sanctions" on the DPRK.

Meanwhile Ecco Sneakers Homme Pas Cher , according to local media reports, Trump is expected to make a sanctions-related announcement on the DPRK on Thursday.

The DPRK confirmed that it conducted another medium-range ballistic missile test last Friday.

The missile launch, which violates UN Security Council resolutions, came just days after the council imposed fresh sanctions on the DPRK over its nuclear test on Sept. 3.

Regarding the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula, Wang said China will continue to strictly implement relevant UN Security Council resolutions concerning the DPRK.

The resolutions, he said Ecco Yucatan Sandales Homme Pas Cher , provide for sanctions but also call for the resumption of negotiations and stress the need to find a peaceful solution to the issue. China hopes the resolutions can be fully implemented, said Wang.

Wang added that efforts should be made to turn the pressure of sanctions into a push for negotiations.